# Patrick Hayes

> Software Engineer at Airtable. Former cofounder and CTO at SigOpt

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/patrickhayes

Software Engineer at Airtable. Former cofounder & CTO at SigOpt. Previously YouTube, Foursquare. University of Waterloo grad.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Airtable
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
AI + DevTools

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
“Uber Tech Lead" for YouTube's Developer Experience team
Architect and technical mentor for frontend, backend, and infrastructure teams
Shipped test infrastructure used by thousands of engineers at YouTube

### Co-founder and CTO @ SigOpt
Jan 2014 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
Founder, architect, and technical mentor at SigOpt, which was acquired by Intel in Oct 2020
Inventor of SigOpt's patented distributed optimization platform for machine learning models
Full-stack engineer with experience managing up to 10 frontend, backend, and research staff
Y Combinator alumni, from the Winter 2015 class

### Senior Software Engineer @ foursquare
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Developed passive awareness notifications to remind users of the best content nearby
Built the tips timeline, for discovering tips from people and tastes you follow
Created Foursquare expertise, for recognizing and rewarding city and neighborhood experts

### Financial Software Developer @ Bloomberg
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Developed software for trend analysis and monitoring of volatility of financial securities

### Research Engineer @ ContextLogic
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Machine learning developer researching algorithms for topical inference of text.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Shipped full stack application for internal search using Solr

### Application Developer @ Sybase
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Waterloo
Developed interactive dashboards for database software using Flex/Actionscript.

### Automation Tools Developer @ Research In Motion
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Waterloo
Designed and improved automated test suites for mobile application software.

### Software Test Associate @ Research In Motion
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Waterloo
Developed automated test suites for testing mobile phone firmware.


## Education
### Winter 2015
Y Combinator

### BMath in Computer Science/Pure Mathematics, Double Honours
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pfjhayes
- Portfolio: http://patrickhay.es
- Portfolio: http://twitter.com/pfjhayes
- Portfolio: http://patrickhayes.brandyourself.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-11